Security update for util-linux

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:0553-1
Rating: important
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2016-5011 ( NVD ): 4.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2016-5011 ( NVD ): 4.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2017-2616 ( NVD ): 4.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 LTSS 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12

An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 11 security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for util-linux fixes a number of bugs and two security issues.

The following security bugs were fixed:

  • CVE-2016-5011: Infinite loop DoS in libblkid while parsing DOS partition (bsc#988361)
  • CVE-2017-2616: In su with PAM support it was possible for local users to send SIGKILL to selected other processes with root privileges (bsc#1023041).

The following non-security bugs were fixed:

  • bsc#1008965: Ensure that the option "users,exec,dev,suid" work as expected on NFS mounts
  • bsc#1012504: Fix regressions in safe loop re-use patch set for libmount
  • bsc#1012632: Disable ro checks for mtab
  • bsc#1020077: fstrim: De-duplicate btrfs sub-volumes for "fstrim -a" and bind mounts
  • bsc#947494: mount -a would fail to recognize btrfs already mounted, address loop re-use in libmount
  • bsc#966891: Conflict in meaning of losetup -L. This switch in SLE12 SP1 and SP2 continues to carry the meaning of --logical-blocksize instead of upstream --nooverlap
  • bsc#978993: cfdisk would mangle some text output
  • bsc#982331: libmount: ignore redundant slashes
  • bsc#983164: mount uid= and gid= would reject valid non UID/GID values
  • bsc#987176: When mounting a subfolder of a CIFS share, mount -a would show the mount as busy
  • bsc#1019332: lscpu: Implement WSL detection and work around crash

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-2017-290=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 LTSS 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2017-290=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 (x86_64)
    • libblkid1-debuginfo-2.25-24.10.1
    • libblkid1-32bit-2.25-24.10.1
    • libmount1-debuginfo-32bit-2.25-24.10.1
    • libblkid1-2.25-24.10.1
    • util-linux-debugsource-2.25-24.10.1
    • libuuid1-32bit-2.25-24.10.1
    • libsmartcols1-2.25-24.10.1
    • util-linux-2.25-24.10.1
    • libuuid1-debuginfo-2.25-24.10.1
    • python-libmount-debugsource-2.25-24.10.3
    • libmount1-2.25-24.10.1
    • python-libmount-2.25-24.10.3
    • libblkid1-debuginfo-32bit-2.25-24.10.1
    • uuidd-2.25-24.10.1
    • python-libmount-debuginfo-2.25-24.10.3
    • libmount1-debuginfo-2.25-24.10.1
    • util-linux-systemd-2.25-24.10.1
    • util-linux-systemd-debugsource-2.25-24.10.1
    • util-linux-systemd-debuginfo-2.25-24.10.1
    • libsmartcols1-debuginfo-2.25-24.10.1
    • libmount1-32bit-2.25-24.10.1
    • uuidd-debuginfo-2.25-24.10.1
    • util-linux-debuginfo-2.25-24.10.1
    • libuuid1-debuginfo-32bit-2.25-24.10.1
    • libuuid1-2.25-24.10.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 (noarch)
    • util-linux-lang-2.25-24.10.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 LTSS 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • uuidd-debuginfo-2.25-24.10.1
    • python-libmount-2.25-24.10.3
    • libblkid1-debuginfo-2.25-24.10.1
    • libsmartcols1-debuginfo-2.25-24.10.1
    • python-libmount-debuginfo-2.25-24.10.3
    • libblkid1-2.25-24.10.1
    • libmount1-debuginfo-2.25-24.10.1
    • util-linux-debugsource-2.25-24.10.1
    • libsmartcols1-2.25-24.10.1
    • util-linux-debuginfo-2.25-24.10.1
    • util-linux-2.25-24.10.1
    • util-linux-systemd-2.25-24.10.1
    • libuuid1-debuginfo-2.25-24.10.1
    • python-libmount-debugsource-2.25-24.10.3
    • uuidd-2.25-24.10.1
    • libuuid1-2.25-24.10.1
    • libmount1-2.25-24.10.1
    • util-linux-systemd-debugsource-2.25-24.10.1
    • util-linux-systemd-debuginfo-2.25-24.10.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 LTSS 12 (noarch)
    • util-linux-lang-2.25-24.10.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 LTSS 12 (s390x x86_64)
    • libblkid1-debuginfo-32bit-2.25-24.10.1
    • libblkid1-32bit-2.25-24.10.1
    • libmount1-debuginfo-32bit-2.25-24.10.1
    • libmount1-32bit-2.25-24.10.1
    • libuuid1-debuginfo-32bit-2.25-24.10.1
    • libuuid1-32bit-2.25-24.10.1

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